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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2013 | Grades 9 and Up
Gr 10 Up—Generous helpings of drama and romance will keep teens enthralled by this sometimes heavy-handed, often unrealistic, but always compulsively readable novel about a girl who steals a baby. Seventeen-year-old Faith can't stand her drug-addicted mother and their squalid life in Ohio. When her mother agrees to have a baby and sell it to an equally unfit couple, Faith kidnaps her half-sister and drives to Florida, where she begins to build a life for herself and baby Addy. Faith calls herself Leah, pretends to be 19, and attempts to p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013
After suffering with her deadbeat mom for seventeen years, Faith snaps, grabs her newborn half-sister, and runs away. Fa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
